According to the Foreign Affairs Ministry, the president has the authority to send or recall ambassadors from any country because they are acting as the nation’s representatives.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reported that President Bola Tinubu has called back the nation’s diplomats.
According to a statement made by Alkasim Abdulkadir, Amb. Yusuf Tuggar’s Special Assistant on Media and Communication Strategy, this is the case.
According to a statement from the minister of foreign affairs, ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, “all career and noncareer ambassadors have been recalled on the instructions of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Ambassadors as representatives of the country they serve at the behest of the president and it’s his prerogative to send or recall them from any country.”
Ajuri Ngelale, the spokesperson for the president, issued a statement in which he requested that “Nigeria’s Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in New York and Geneva be exempted from this total recall, in light of the upcoming United Nations General Assembly, taking place later this month.”
The President’s instruction, he continued, “takes immediate effect on the immediate recall of the affected officers.”
Earlier, Tinubu had called back Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Ishola, Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, who had been appointed by the late President Muhammadu Buhari in January 2021.
Tuggar wrote on August 31, 2023 that the decision marked the end of Ishola’s term as the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
By way of this message, you are now required to start winding up your affairs, take formal leave from your host government within sixty days, and return to Nigeria no later than October 31, 2023, according to the written statement.
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of Mr. President for the service you have provided as Nigeria’s Ambassador and Principal Representative in the United Kingdom.
“While looking forward to your arrival in Abuja upon your return, allow me to join Mr. President in expressing gratitude to Your Excellency for your great service to Nigeria and as a leader. I pray that God will continue to lead you in all of your undertakings.
